Improvement in cotton-presses



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Artnr LIIIVIS LEVIS, OF VIGKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI.

IMPROVEIVI ENT IN COTTON-PRESSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 9,197, dated August 1T,1952.`

T0 a/ZZ whom it may concern):

Be it known that I, Lnwis Lnwrs, a citizen of the United States, andresiding at Vicksburg, in the county of Warren and State of Mississippi,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cotton, Hay, Hemp, andTobacco Presses, and also the same principle when applied to presses ofdifferent sizes and for other purposes; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a description of the construction, application, andoperation of the `same by Figures l and 2.

Fig. 2 represents the frame that holds the `press to its place at thetop The cross-beam (marked B) on thetop ofthe screw,being forked at eachend, moves up and down the posts numbered 2 and 2, as the case mayrequire, and keeps the screw from revolving. Figs. 3 and 3 and 4 and etrepresent the oor of the house in which it may stand; B, the crossbeamon the tcp of the screw; D, the small ends; E, the upper female; F, thesliding nut; G, the follower; K K, the stems of the follower connectedto the sliding nut; I and L, the pieces that the box-plank is fastenedto; R and Q, the top and bottom of the box; S, the bale; I, thebed-piece of the press; Kand K, the gullens; M, the doors of the press;O, the blocks that support the weight of the press on the ground; P, thegudgeon that the press revolves on, the press standing perpendicular,and revolves around the screw,turning on the gudgeon P. The drawings No.1 on file reprealso works with greater power.

sent a side view of the press partly run up, which is referred to aspart of this description.

My press works with great ease and convenience. The upper end risingfaster than the lower end, takes the point of the screw out of the wayof the hands engaged in filling cotton, hay, Src., and the differentsize of the screw at each end strengthens the screw inthe center whereit most needs strength, and it rIhere is a groove in each end of the nutto keep it permanent, and makes it revolve around the screw with thebalance of the press, at the same time facilitating the speed nearone-half.

Having thus fully described the nature and operation of my press, what Iclaim therein as of my invention and desire to secure by LettersPatent'is- The arrangement of the press hereinabove described in suchmanner that it may be conveniently charged in an upper story of thebuilding in which it is placed, and actuated and discharged in a lowerstory of the same, substantially as herein-set forth, referencebeing hadin my claims for Letters Patent to the drawings and specifications astiled and hereinbeforc set forth.

LEVIS LEVIS.

Vituesses: j

GEO. BUMGARD, I. ROYALE.

